{"id":365637,"date":"2026-07-08T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365637\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:59:09","slug":"houston-ice-shooting-slain-mans-son-calls-for-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365637\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ICE shooting: Slain man\u2019s son calls for investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Houston leaders on Wednesday said they have received little information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the fatal shooting of an immigrant Tuesday, while his eldest son publicly praised his father and demanded an investigation. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted nothing else in life but to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people,\u201d Ronaldo Salgado, who works as a teacher, said of his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, during a press conference. <\/p>\n

Salgado said his father was a \u201cman of routine\u201d who always began his day before sunrise and left the house around 6 a.m. to his job building homes in North Houston. <\/p>\n

But on Tuesday, after picking up three other men, including his brother, for work, Salgado Araujo\u2019s vehicle was stopped by agents in unmarked vehicles. The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents were attempting to stop Salgado Araujo\u2019s vehicle as part of an unspecified \u201ctargeted enforcement operation\u201d in Houston\u2019s East End, a predominantly Latino neighborhood. <\/p>\n

\"LorenzoCourtesy photo of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Houston on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. Courtesy\/Facebook<\/p>\n

The agency said Salgado Araujo also ignored verbal commands and tried to run over the ICE agent who shot him. The officer fired in self-defense, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Salgado said his father, who was in the process of getting a work permit, may have feared that he was about to get robbed. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne of his worst fears is that someone took away his work tools, because that is how he made his livelihood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad my father seen an emblem of ICE, or an emblem that says anything about law enforcement agency, my father would have complied,\u201d he added. \u201cHe would have not run away, because he feared for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local elected leaders echoed demands for an independent investigation into Salgado Araujo\u2019s death. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we know is very thin,\u201d said Juan Proa\u00f1o, the CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens. \u201cWe want a full and transparent investigation. Every piece of evidence, body camera footage, dash cam footage, bystander video, dispatch records must all be preserved and released to an independent investigator and to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

LULAC is offering a $5,000 reward for information and videos leading to \u201cthe arrest, indictment, conviction, or exoneration of any person involved in this potential murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Domingo Garcia, LULAC\u2019s national president, asked the Houston Police Department to investigate, saying he does not trust a federal investigation. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t expect the truth from the Department of Justice or from the FBI,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cWe expect a whitewash, that\u2019s just what we expect. But let me just be very clear, the only way we hold them accountable is if the citizens and the residents of Houston hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disclosure: Domingo Garcia has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in The Texas Tribune\u2019s journalism. Find a complete\u00a0list of them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,21382,6473],"class_list":["post-365637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-illegal-immigration-in-texas","tag-well-a-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}